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re: Coach Bryant passed away 30 yrs ago today
Posted on 1/26/13 at 12:49 pm to dr__dawggy
Posted on 1/26/13 at 12:49 pm to dr__dawggy
RIP Bear
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Posted on 1/26/13 at 12:54 pm to MsGarrison
I was in line at the dmv in pelham a few weeks back and some lady was goin on about how great his museum is. I guess she assumed I was a fellow gump but I wasnt wearing any identifying fan gear. Her smile quickly faded when lol'd and said I'll never know.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 12:58 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
frick that cheater, he can burn in hell.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:05 pm to RonBurgundy
I first heard he passed in the afternoon paper in front of port authority in ny. Never had I felt further from LA.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:08 pm to RonBurgundy
Classy
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:17 pm to Broyota2
I remember it well, he died on my 11th birthday.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:17 pm to Broyota2
When people say that sort of idiotic stuff, I know exactly what they look like in real life. I could probably see that Ron Burgundy (not the movie Ron Burgundy) 1000 times in real life and not know that I'd seen him 1000 times before. And I am one of those people who remembers faces. Of course he would say that.
This post was edited on 1/26/13 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:53 pm to DoreKnockers
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When people say that sort of idiotic stuff
yeah you're right, we should all glorify a drunk who inspired major NCAA rule changes and who used state money to finance investigations into Auburn.
You idiots believe in canonizing a historical sports figure in part because of the lack journalistic integrity. The same reason Ray Lewis is glorified now is the reason the Bear is loved by all. The fact that other SEC schools latch onto him is fricking pathetic.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 1:54 pm to RonBurgundy
You jelly
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:03 pm to RonBurgundy
Since you know him so well and all.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:07 pm to RonBurgundy
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You idiots believe in canonizing a historical sports figure in part because of the lack journalistic integrity.
I see. And you know everything there is to know about Bryant's shady history at Alabama, I'm sure.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:13 pm to RonBurgundy
30 years, and people still mad.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:18 pm to RollTide1987
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And you know everything there is to know about Bryant's shady history at Alabama, I'm sure.
RT87, you are one of my favorite Bama posters on this site and I'm sure you know this guy-as successful as he was, wasn't the squeaky clean demi-god gumps and little brother SEC fans prop him up to be.
He's college football Mickey Mantle, only the Mick stay alive long enough to have him skeletons come out.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:20 pm to RonBurgundy
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RT87, you are one of my favorite Bama posters on this site and I'm sure you know this guy-as successful as he was, wasn't the squeaky clean demi-god gumps and little brother SEC fans prop him up to be.
I'm not saying he was. I'm just saying that he may have been in that middle ground where he did a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong. That's the way it's always been with every coach in college football. These guys aren't saints, they are human beings. Human beings aren't perfect.
This post was edited on 1/26/13 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:36 pm to RollTide1987
on a much more extreme scale Joe Pa is the same..
Posted on 1/26/13 at 2:50 pm to RollTide1987
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I'm just saying that he may have been in that middle ground where he did a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong.
The better players getting extra comp tickets, a generous price for them from boosters, part time jobs where punching the clock wasn't particularly strict...lot of that back then. I never thought Coach Brynat or those around them did anything much different than what was fairly normal at the time. He always represented the school well and his accomplishments were second to none. What I remember most at the time is he had a sense of honor about him. In hindsight what I miss, was the mercenary coach wasn't in vogue then. Today, if someone stays 10 years, that seems eternity. Kudos and RIP to Coach Bryant.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 3:05 pm to RonBurgundy
All right anchorman... I went to Vanderbilt, but I grew up with friends and family who knew him, warts and all. He isn't some far off figure. He's a man. I have sat at dinners and heard first hand stories about him, what he did, what he didn't do that people think he did, and what he did that no one will ever know that he did.
People who reduce him to being a cheater have as much of an agenda as those who make him a faultless God. There is really no difference between those two mindsets, so we all know you are no better than the people you are criticizing. No one can argue that he had charisma, and he brought a lot of good to a sport. No one can argue that most of his peers respected him.
Meanwhile, we have you, mister seemingly lower middle class dipshit reading stories about him on the Internet and saying stuff about him. Again, I went to Vanderbilt, so my favorite team never wins at anything, but I sure as hell can spot a guy who has little going for him except his interest in a football team, and chooses to diminish someone's accomplishments because he has none of his own past the standard mediocrity. LSU is a great team, and I would never offend the good people who love their team and find pride in its accomplishments. In you, one can only imagine a guy who has nothing worthy to speak of personally, and his favorite team has been vexed to usually finish second or third, or worse. It's just as sad as the mediocre people who brag about Alabama because they are personal failures.
People who reduce him to being a cheater have as much of an agenda as those who make him a faultless God. There is really no difference between those two mindsets, so we all know you are no better than the people you are criticizing. No one can argue that he had charisma, and he brought a lot of good to a sport. No one can argue that most of his peers respected him.
Meanwhile, we have you, mister seemingly lower middle class dipshit reading stories about him on the Internet and saying stuff about him. Again, I went to Vanderbilt, so my favorite team never wins at anything, but I sure as hell can spot a guy who has little going for him except his interest in a football team, and chooses to diminish someone's accomplishments because he has none of his own past the standard mediocrity. LSU is a great team, and I would never offend the good people who love their team and find pride in its accomplishments. In you, one can only imagine a guy who has nothing worthy to speak of personally, and his favorite team has been vexed to usually finish second or third, or worse. It's just as sad as the mediocre people who brag about Alabama because they are personal failures.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 3:05 pm to RonBurgundy
Mickey Mantle 
Well damn St.Peter, just damn. You should let it go.
Well damn St.Peter, just damn. You should let it go.Posted on 1/26/13 at 3:15 pm to DoreKnockers
And there she is...
Posted on 1/26/13 at 3:20 pm to DoreKnockers
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DoreKnockers
Get an avvy.
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